Combination-color book.



PATENTBD AUG. 4, 1908. J. M. BACON.

ATION COLOR BOOK.

APPLICATION rum) 00110, 1905.

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I \1. UNITED STATES PATEI T OI IFICE.

JOHN MURRAY BACON, OFQAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

COhIBINATIOiNf-COLOR BOOK.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MURRAY BACON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge, Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Color Books, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relatesto that class of devices used for showing colors and combinations of colors of paints, and particularly in the sale of the application of paintsfor houses and other structures.

In this class of devices, as heretofore used, the colors are represented upon paper strips which are pasted upon a card or sheet and all these groups of cards, each having several colors or tints, harmonizing with each other and representing the various combinations which the card may contain.

Il'ith these cards or sheets the space afforded is-necessarily small, comparatively, and the individual cards which represent the colors must necessarily be small and limited in number. Even with a limited number, the show card or sheet is bulky and awkward to handle, and the small individual cards give an imperfect idea of the harmony and effect of the colors grouped thereon.

My invention is designed to obviate these difliculties and consists of a book having sheets or leaves bound therein or otherwise properly connected or contained, the sheets or leaves being sub-divided on common lines parallel with each other. The sheets or sub divisions each represent a color and the whole a complete series of colors, in a proper and consecutive order, so that by turning up the sub-divisions any desired combination or harmony of colols may be shown.

I have illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure 1 represents the form of the book suited to the purpose, uncovered to show the first leaf. Fig. 2 represents the book with one sub-di ision turned back, and Fig. 3 shows the same with two sub-divisions turned back so as to disclose three harmonizing colors.

I have "presented my invention as enibodied in the book form, the leaves being bound in any suitable manner with suitable colors. and this I regard as the most convenient form. This book contains a series of leaves or pages, in number sullicient to repre- Specification of'Letters Patent.

Application filed October 10, I906. Serial No. 338,322.

Patented Aug. 4, 1908.

sent the complete list of colors offered to the trade, including white, and )referably each sheet or leaf is coated with the pigment of a single color so as to represent that color and material. The leaves are sub-divided on lines parallel with the top and bottom of the page, the sub-division extending throu hout the wholebody of the leaves, whereby a l the leaves are made to consist of sub-sections of the same size and overlying each other, and preferably the to and bottom sub-divisions are narrower and the central w'der, for the better ell'ect in showing the colors For convenience, I print upon the back of the section of each leaf the name of the color ohtint represented upon its face, as shown for examp e in Fig. 1, where the turned back central section is marked Concord light gray.

It will be understood from this description that by turning back the sections of leaves any possible combination of colors desired may )0 shown upon the full size of the page. For illustration, Fig. 1 shows the first sheet without any sections turned back; and re resenting the Concord light gray. n Fi 2 the single central section of this co or is turned back disclosing a like section underneath of U. S. X. marine white, but leaving the borders in place. In Fig. 3 I have represented the leaves turned back to' disclose the combination of three colors, for example: On the lower narrow stri is U. S.

N. marine white outside gloss; on the broader central strip X0. 44 colonial yellow; and on the upper, U. S. N. marine green, medium moss. This combination is suit-able, for example, for painting a house in which the yellow constitutes the body, the white the trimmings, and the green the blinds.

By turning back the sections or leaves in the same manner the other combinations of colors through the scope of the book, may be disclosed, and these colors are shown in their proper relation and upon a full sized page sullicient for a clear appreciation of the ell'ect of the combination, whatever the combination may be, and the same size, page and same disclosure and effect are produced for every combination of colors, and all this within the convenient bulk of a single book or single mass of attached leaves. This single boot; or mass of connected sheets of dill'crent col rs thus supplements the ordinary color show card and is capable of much more smaller and more convenient compass.

hinations of colors and tints in a much stantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J. MURRAY BACON.

extensive representation of colors and coin- I to show different combinations of colors, sub- 10 I claim as my invention:

A color book comprising a series of connected leaves 01 sheets, each leaf hearing its appropriate color, or tint, and all the leaves \Vitnesses: being subdivided into sections whereby one A. H. MOGl-IAN, or more of the sections 11111;. be turned back EDWARD SAPTON. 

